On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:19:29PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
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> I received a couple of upgrade requests, and I discovered a full nest of
> bees: while the package dates 1999 there are lots of patches available.
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> IMHO the best thing would be to base next cygwin package on RedHat's
> SRPM, that contains most (or all) of them.
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> What do you think of it?
> Any pointer on how to build a Cygwin package based on a SRPM?
I don't think it's a good idea to base Cygwin's package on an SRPM.
Unpack the SRPM (just rpm -i) and use the contained tar and patch
files for the Cygwin distro. Let us not require rpm for unpacking
the -src package as long as setup.exe is not rpm aware.
Corinna
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